Today we did the weekly current events quiz where we do a quiz on things that are currently happening in the world. When we have done the Quiz we then chose a question to research. I chose to do mine on the United Nations. The question in the quiz was "what flag is this" and it showed an image of the united nations flag. 

I enjoyed finding out the information. I enjoyed finding out the information because I learnt a lot about what the united nations do. 

I found it challenging to find an image of the flag to use. I found it challenging to find an image of the flag to use because there were quite a few that Couldn't be used. 

Here is what I made. 

Summer Learning Journey

 Today we did one of the activities for the summer learning journey for this year. The activity that we did was where you got to colour an image of a famous artist. We did it on google. There were 16 different colours that we could choose from to use. The first eight colours are colours from the colour palette of the original painting. The other eight were other different colours that were not part of the colour palette of the painting. I decided to only use the colours from the palette of the original painting. I did a picture of the big ben. The original image will be first then the image I coloured will be after that. 

Komodo Dragon

 This week we did the current events quiz and we all had to choose a question to do research on. I chose to do mine on Komodo Dragons. I talked about a couple of different things about Komodo Dragons including if they could kill someone and put what I had found out into different slides. 

I enjoyed doing all of the research. I enjoyed doing all of the research because I found it really interesting to find out about a whole lot of different things about Komodo Dragons. 

I found It challenging to figure out what question to do research on. I found it challenging to figure out what question to do research on because there were a lot of good questions To choose from. 

Here are the slides that I made. 

The world's Largest shopping event

Today we did our current events quiz and had to choose a  question to do research on. There were twenty different questions all about different things like a killer whale that was seen in part of New Zealand and what is the mane of the Argentina rugby team that beat the All Blacks. I chose to do mine about Singles day. The question was what it is called. 

I enjoyed doing the research. I enjoyed doing the research because there was a lot of information that I was able to find and I found it really fun finding out about all of the different things about Singles day. 

I found it challenging to chose what question to research. I found it challenging to choose what question to do research on because there were a lot of really good questions to choose from and I wasn't sure which one to do. 

Here is the slide that I made about Singles day. 

HOW TO BE A GRACIOUS WINNER AND LOSER

 This week we are doing our reading on our sportsmanship. For this activity what we had to do is we had to write about how to be a gracious winner and loser. For mine, I made two slides, one about being a gracious winner, the other about being a gracious loser. 

I enjoyed writing about how to be a gracious winner. I enjoyed writing about how to be a gracious winner because there were so many things that I was able to write about. 

I found it challenging to come up with the things that you should do to be a gracious loser. I found it challenging to come up with the ideas of what to do to be a gracious loser because I wasn't sure of how to word some of the things that you should do. 

Here are the slides that I made.

SPORTSMANSHIP

 This week we are doing reading based on sportsmanship. One of the things that we have had to do is say what the 3 Olympic values are. 

I enjoyed writing it. I enjoyed writing it because I was able to give an explanation as to what they are and why they have them. 

I found it challenging to find the three values. I found it challenging to find the three values because there were different sights with different answers. 

Here is the slide that I made. 

CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ

 Today we did our weekly current events quiz. Each week my class does a quiz on current events. When we have finished, We then choose a topic to research. This Week I chose the Question about the puppy that was born in Italy that was born green. 

I enjoyed doing the research. I enjoyed doing the research because I found out that puppies can be born green but slowly turn back to their actual fur colour. 

I found it challenging to get information. I found it challenging to get the information because although there are a lot of people talking about the green puppy there are not a lot of people talking about why the puppy is green. 

Here is the slide I made about what I found out about the puppy.